Mariko Suzuki did everything in the Lolita without being in the spotlight. Her job circled the world in a subtle way. Her brown long hair, the little spot on her lips and her little dark eyes aren’t in the magazines covers. They’re behind: She was the first Gothic & Lolita bible’s editor in chief.

Mariko remembers how in the lately 70’s started to see clothes similar to what we know now as Lolita. She was young and got interested. In 1982 started to see new brands in the magazines, between those was PINK HOUSE: “It was, at first sight, something that I just wanted to have”, says. Two years passed until she could buy what she wanted. Suzuki don’t think PINK HOUSE as Lolita clothes, but it was her first approach. She didn’t start to wear Lolita clothes until 2003, while she was working at KERA MANIAX.

She graduated from Liberal Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Aoyama Gakuin for Women, because of the Christian teaching of the place, she had an approach to Christian art and history, not a very popular religion in Japan. It is perhaps this approach to this art which explains his penchant for brand clothing Juliette et Justine, wich often incorporate wastern art into their designs.

From 1998 to 2003 was the editor in chief of magazine Kera and of Gothic & Lolita Bible, since its launch in 2001. In 2003 she became the managing editor of KERA MANIAX and in 2007 returned to the Bible, where she was its editor until a few months ago.

She was in charge when the Bible used illustrations on their covers and when they decided to switch to pictures, even when the magazine published the list of Lolita commandments in its fourth edition. Today does not believe in rules for lolita.

To Mariko, the best of her work in the Gothic & Lolita Bible was that it began to being read not only in Japan but in the whole world and people began to talk about fashion and presented as culture the Lolita.

-What do you think about western lolitas?
- Lolita was created, in the beginning, emulating western clothes, so it can be more than Japanese.
-Are there any differences?
- In Japan, they do coordinates with the littles details and use accessories carefully, right? Moreover, In Japan they wear a petticoat under the skirt, but it seems like they don’t do that in the west.

Currently, Mariko stepped down as editor in chief of the Gothic & Lolita bible and works as a freelance writer. She wants to transmit Japanese culture.